IMO USians have overwhelmingly become too decadent to actually want to work those manufacturing jobs (see TSMC struggling to find anyone they can hire here) although it’s possible such a process would reify internal colonies and be staffed by new immigrants, undocumented workers, black workers, and indigenous workers. That could actually create conditions for revolution inside the US.

Depends on whether you view those offshored manufacturing jobs as neocolonialism or not. If they are, then moving them back onshore means there will be less neocolonial exploitation.

Basically they can do this because the miners signed fixed-rate power contracts with the utility a few years back. So the contract says they only have to pay, I don’t know, 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. If it’s a high demand day and power goes to 50c/kwh, the utility doesn’t want to be selling its scarce capacity at 10c/kwh so will bribe the miners with money, say, 20c/kwh multiplied by their usual daily kwh consumption. That lets the utility sell the electricity they would have sold to the miners at an effective rate (for the utility) of 30c/kwh to the public, who pays 50c/kwh.

An even more ridiculous thing the miners can do is just buy all the power they can at 10c/kwh and redirect it back onto the grid where they can sell it at 50c/kwh to the public (usually through a utility intermediary).

It isn’t all upside for the miners, theoretically, since there’s a risk that power could decrease in cost below their fixed rate contract sometimes. But given how shitty Texas’ electricity grid is and how the state has no ability to actually incentivize building more capacity that probably won’t happen. (actually these miners themselves were envisioned to be this incentive, love to set up a rube goldberg mechanism instead of just being like “build more power capacity”).

This might not be strictly accurate, based on this statement in the article:

Pierre Rochard, head of research at Riot, says it costs roughly $30,000 of electricity to mine one bitcoin and last year Riot mined nearly 7,000 (implying an annual cost of some $200m). And Riot is just getting going. The company is building a second plant in Corsicana, south of Dallas, that will be double the size.

At current price of $54k/bitcoin that comes to $378 million in revenue per year, with $210 million electricity cost. I’m sure they have other expenses though. They don’t seem to sell most of the bitcoin they mine, opting to hold it for the future (when it will be worth zero dollars ).

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I bounced off twice. Just don’t try to play it like Hollow Knight.

Just know that it’s hard to get into. There isn’t really any strong narrative pushing you along, and it’s a lot more about learning how to exist in the specific ecosystems you encounter as you progress through the game. There are a few linear difficult stealth & platforming sections around the midpoint but the early game is very open.

it is true that the more people learn about kamala’s actual policies the more they’re like god damn not voting for that shit

as is well known, it is impossible to grow facial hair or use hairpieces to replicate them. so we can only use actors for this role who are currently sporting mutton chops

also lol at using a man with a gigantic jaw made of titanium to portray Kim, whose main caricature feature is a small jaw.

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This happens with all kinds of protests. At this point I don’t even listen to people complaining about methods of protest until it’s established they actually agree with the goals of the protest. Ran into this all the time in the 2020 BLM times. A whole bunch of whinging about protest methods and engaging them went actually fucking nowhere because their complaint wasn’t about the methods, it never was, they just didn’t believe that systemic racism actually exists.

Rain World has this but for ecosystems. There is a whole dynamic predation hierarchy that changes according to how dangerous you are known to be or how much you have tamed certain creatures, there are tribes of intelligent creatures that you can trade with or fight with or be attacked by depending on the reputation you develop with them over the game, there are food sources that cannot be repeatedly visited but must be rotated through to give them time to regrow.

The comic series Palestine by Joe Sacco includes a short section of him talking to Palestinian feminists. It was interesting; they spoke of “the lesson of Algeria”, where women took great risks to assist in its liberation (you can see some depictions of this in The Battle of Algiers) and yet were not rewarded with rights after the French were kicked out and the country was organized according to Islamic principles. So there is that internal struggle between feminism and hardline Islamism, it does exist. Some feminists in the scene believed Islamic law actually provides a solid theoretical basis for women’s rights, others disagree.

I would say this is one of those “let Muslim feminists lead the way” but that has difficulty because they’ll always be able to find some western ex-Muslim liberal feminist validating all of their most racist beliefs. It has all the same pitfalls that, like, “listen to black people” has with the black faces in high places phenomenon.

I never recommend books without reading them but one book I am planning to read in the near future which probably covers this is Orientalism by Edward Said.

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Yesterday CBC’s warmonger-in-residence “journalist” Murray Brewster had a full sweep of the entire CBC website front page above the fold: like six stories he’s written the past few months about how Canada needs to massively increase its spending on armaments, we are letting our NATO allies down, Canada is a military embarrassment, red tape is delaying military procurement, China and Russia are going to zoom across the ocean and get us, etc. It was fucking disgusting.

That sounds like a great idea. Don’t underestimate walking! I’m a pretty active guy and try to go for walks. Sometimes after going for a 1+ hour walk I’m slightly sore the next day, the workout is real!

45 minutes once a week? gotta be hill sprints. skip the gym and go to the nearest hill and then repeatedly sprint up it until you want to puke.

if that is too unpleasant then walk up the hill slowly with a weighted pack repeatedly. I don’t want to say once a week is nothing because it isn’t, but life experience has taught me that if I’m not putting in at least an hour of exercise 3x/week (can include purposeful walking) things won’t be heading in the right direction unless you’re on some unbelievably regimented diet.

A lot of libs considering themselves radical got filtered HARD by October 7th and have still not recovered from it

The most humiliating part of most job applications is having to temporarily portray yourself as appropriately house-broken, aka employable. Someone who is optimistic and believes that their labor for the company will let them actualize their deepest values. Anyway imagine if all social network posts were written solely by people at the exact nadir of that humiliation ritual.